On 3/14/2018 10:01 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 3/14/18 9:24 AM, Leon wrote:
http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/power...5c6e ecb92632




Interesting!Â*Â* I've always been intrigued by the Metabo brand.
Funny that Hitachi buys the company for name recognition, but folks in
the US (for the most part) have never heard of Metabo but everyone knows
Hitachi.Â*Â* Apparently, they want more of the Euro market.



Yes very interesting. But my thoughts, I have known about Metabo,
probably longer than Festool. I knew it was an upper end brand, German
IIRC. IMHO Hitachi has always been a good value tool but again IMHO did
not ever have unique features, other then their tools looking a lot like
a fancy design tennis shoe. Perhaps, like you said, they want to profit
more from Euro sales of Metabo products. Hopefully the Hitachi built
tools with the Metabo name plate will retain the same quality and
features that the Metabo brand has offered in the past. One might
imagine that Hitachi hopes to boost sales with the Metabo name plate
here in the US.